About 25 percent of the estimated 300,000 U.S. children lured into sex trafficking each year live in Texas, reports the San Antonio Express-News. Victim advocates at a press conference yesterday sought to lay out the scope of the problem and ways it might be better addressed.

For more than a year and a half, three people accused of being members of a Hungarian crime family eluded authorities as their alleged associates were rounded up, prosecuted and convicted of running the largest human trafficking ring in Canadian history.